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Is this the "Anthropocene" epoch? Nope, geologists say.
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The guardians of the world’s official geological timescale have firmly rejected a proposal to declare an Anthropocene epoch, after an epic academic row. The proposal would have designated the period from 1952 as the Anthropocene to reflect the planet-changing impact of humanity. It would have ended the Holocene epoch, the 11,700 …
After years of debate, the International Union of Geological Sciences refuses to classify our time as a particular geological period, which would have justified an ad hoc classification. A surprising twist in the world of geology: after dozens of years of debate, the world's reference body has finally decided not to grant the Anthropocene, an episode characterized by the presence of humans everywhere on Earth, a unique place in the Earth's geolo…
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